Amatrice named World Monuments Fund site (2)

In natural disaster category

(ANSA) - New York, October 16 - The quake-hit Lazio village
of Amatrice has been chosen among the 2018 sites of the World
Monuments Fund, the organisation said Monday. The WMF seeks to
preserve sites of archaeological or cultural interest around the
world. The village, destroyed by the August 24, 2016 earthquake
in central Italy, has been put into the "natural disaster"
category. The WMF chose 25 sites from a list of 170 nominations.
Amatrice, home to the sauce in the famed past dish Bucatini
all'Amatriciana, was among many villages destroyed by the August
quake and two other tremors in October.